MINISTRY OF SERVERS

Chapters are: Introduction, Preparing to Serve Mass, Postures at Mass, Directions for Serving Mass, Special Directions for Serving Funerals, Special Directions for Serving Weddings, Directions for Serving the Way of the Cross, Serving at Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, Investiture Ceremony, Pope John Paul II Speaks to Altar Servers, When to Stand, Sit, and Kneel at Mass, and My Substitutes to Serve.

Fr. Michael Kwatera, O.S.B., Ph.D., is Director of Oblates at St. Johns Abbey, and teaches theology at St. John's University, Collegeville. He is the author of Sunday Mealtime Prayers, Preparing the General Intercessions, as well as The Ministry of Deacons and The Ministry of Communion, published by Liturgical Press.

"Fr. Kwatera provides a new edition of an old friend. Servers who use this guide will feel a sense of pride in their ministry as they develop a deeper appreciation of the importance of their role. Fr. Michael lays out the duties of servers at Mass and other devotions in a way that is clear and concise while respecting the differences in detail that a server may encounter. This guide will provide a useful and inspiring tool to those who train servers."